author: David Jacoby

I decided to investigate the black market and see what kind of information is being sold there. We all know that you can buy drugs, weapons and stolen goods there, but you can also buy online identities. How much do you think your online identity is worth? Read Full Article

The Facebook malware that spread last week was dissected in a collaboration with Kaspersky Lab and Detectify. We were able to get help from the involved companies and cloud services to quickly shut down parts of the attack to mitigate it as fast as possible. Read Full Article

One good thing about having a lot of Facebook friends is that you simply act as a honey pot when your friends click on malicious things. A few days ago I got a message on Facebook from a person I very rarely speak to, and I knew that something fishy was going on. Read Full Article

Whilst sitting and working in the South African office I receive an email from my Swedish ISP. I quickly look at it and there is something that doesn’t add up. The email states that I need to pay my invoice, but I never receive electronic invoices from this company. Read Full Article

In Sweden, we’re facing a big issue with scammers trying to buy items for sale on various auction websites. Since one of these scammers tried to scam my wife, I decided to follow their scam and document the entire process. Read Full Article

Our homes today look more like small offices. We have tons of different devices connected to our network, everything from storage devices and network equipment to wireless network printers. Read Full Article

A typical modern home can have around five devices connected to the local network which aren’t computers, tablets or cellphones. As users in a connected digital environment we need to ask ourselves: ‘Are the devices connected to my network vulnerable? What could an attacker actually do if these devices were compromised? Is my home ‘hackable?’ Read Full Article

This week has been one of the most hectic weeks in a very long time, I’ve been working day and night to finish everything for the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit. I was not in the mood for new work because of… Read Full Article

During the last days, several high profile domains have been defaced including domains from two prominent security companies. In addition to these, high profile domains such as alexa.com, whatsapp.com and redtube.com were also defaced. From our quick analysis It does… Read Full Article

As a security analyst we often get asked the question: “What threats and vulnerabilities do you expect us to see in the future?” This is a very interesting question but also an indication that the way we think about and discuss IT-security… Read Full Article

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